Lalilo: A Reading Assistant for Children Featuring Speech Recognition-Based Reading Mistake Detection

Lalilo is a reading assistant intended to help kindergarten to second grade students to master their reading skills. Students progress at their own pace thanks to an adaptive learning system that differentiates instructions. Teachers can access data on their students’ progression. Among other exercises, a read-aloud exercise is provided for students to practice their reading. This exercise uses a reading mistake detection system based on speech recognition to offer automatic feedback on the child’s reading. Since speech recognition on children learning to read is highly challenging, we overcome potential inaccurate thus damageable feedback with an uncertainty estimation leading to a neutral feedback.